Governor Mitt Romney has emerged from a summer of contentious budget dust-ups and a successful battle to oust University of Massachusetts president William Bulger with increased personal popularity, a new poll shows.
The survey taken by UMass Friday through Sunday of 402 registered Massachusetts voters shows that 63 percent of people surveyed have a favorable opinion of the first-year governor, up from 48 percent in May. Six in 10 approve of the job he is doing as governor.
